title: Clinical Inquiry. How best to diagnose asthma in infants and toddlers?
abstract: No reliable way exists to diagnose asthma in infants and toddlers. Recurrent wheezing, especially apart from colds, combined with physician-diagnosed eczema or atopic dermatitis, eosinophilia, and a parental history of asthma, increase the probability of a subsequent asthma diagnosis in the absence of other causes (strength of recommendation: B, 2 good-quality cohort studies).
authors.affiliation: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, USA.
authors.forename: Vince
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Winklerprins
authors.forename: David T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Walsworth
authors.forename: John C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Coffey
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000209:etiology